Word: legalization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Trials for the debating teams to oppose Yale and Princeton in the triangular debate on March 20 and to face Dartmouth in the legal discussion on March 14 will be held tonight at 7 o'clock in Harvard 6. The trials are open to all undergraduates in the University...
...zeal for safe-guarding the rights of property, the American Legal Association surely intends to work for the restoration of alien property confiscated in wartime. In nineteen seventeen the state department asserted that it "would not take advantage of a state of war to take possession of property to which international understandings and the recognized law of the land can give it no just claim or title". Simultaneously, several million dollars' worth of property belonging to alien enemies was seized and has since remained in governmental hands...
...United States has no legal title to the property. It took possession temporarily and under conditions that have long since passed away. Its handling has been subject to serious abuses and probable corruption. The time has come to restore this property to its rightful owners. Meanwhile, the critics of American democracy will be left to wonder at the elephantine slowness with which the public conscience is aroused to act in manifest cases of injustice...
...sure it will not meet until some months later. But before that date, on Feb. 27, the caucus of the Republican members of the House in the 69th Congress will meet. Last week, the Republican Committee on Committees issued the call. Because the caucus is an extra-legal body, it will not matter that some of its members are not Congressmen, but only Congressmen...
...Manhattan, graduates* of the Harvard Law School met, adopted a resolution which declared: 1) That Dean Pound was the "acknowledged leader of legal education throughout those parts of the world where Common Law prevails"; 2) that the "loss of Dean Pound to Harvard Law School and to the profession of law would be irreparable...